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Africa (continent)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 20095 Collections and/or Records:

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The southern eland (Natal) [South Africa], 1920 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/68
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Collection of monochrome postcards printed in collotype showing stuffed animals in the Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg. Accompanying the postcards is a four page printed leaflet by the Director of the Natal Museum, Ernest Warren, dated April 1924 and entitled 'The need for the International protection of the African fauna.'

Dates: 1920 - 1929
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Sovereign's Gate, 1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/5/43
Scope and Contents

110 x 85 mm. View looking through a gate at a castle.

Dates: 1943
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[The Sphinx]

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 7/192
Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the rest of visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. Subjects include: visits to Aden, Cairo, and Corfu on the return journey to the U.K., with arrival in London on May 8, 1906. Appended are photographs taken during the visit by the Prince and Princess of Wales to Madrid for the wedding of King Alfonso XIII and Queen Ena (May 31,...
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Sphynx and Great Pyramid, Gezeh [i.e. Giza], 1857

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30214A/2
Scope and Contents

229 x 157 mm. A composition showing a profile of the Sphinx's head in the foreground with the pyramid beyond, and figures at the foot of the Spinx. According to Frith: 'The profile, as given in my view, is truly hideous'. This viewpoint occurs again and again in photographs of Gizeh pyramids, but it is interesting in that, when compared with a modern photograph of the same scene, it shows the degree of excavation that has been carried out in the area of the Sphinx.

Dates: 1857
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The spiral system with the 'Funtumia knife'

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/109
Scope and Contents

72 x 93 mm. A view showing an incision being made in the bark of a rubber tree with the cutting end of a 'Funtumia knife'.

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The spiral system with the 'Funtumia knife'

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/110
Scope and Contents

74 x 94 mm. A view showing the groove being deepened with the pricking end of the 'Funtumia knife'.

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The spray above Victoria Falls, 1924 - 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047B/96
Scope and Contents

83 x 133 mm. Original print postcard.

Dates: 1924 - 1931
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The square-lipped or white rhinoceros, Bodjo, Upper Wele, Congo, 1915, 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/202
Scope and Contents

95 x 74 mm. A view showing a white rhinoceros shot by Christy in order to capture its calf for the Antwerp Zoological Gardens.

Dates: 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The square-lipped or white rhinoceros, Bodjo, Upper Wele, Congo, 1915, 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/203
Scope and Contents

95 x 74 mm. A view showing a white rhinoceros shot by Christy in order to capture its calf for the Antwerp Zoological Gardens.

Dates: 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The square-lipped or white rhinoceros, Bodjo, Upper Wele, Congo, 1915, 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/204
Scope and Contents

95 x 74 mm. A view showing a white rhinoceros shot by Christy in order to capture its calf for the Antwerp Zoological Gardens.

Dates: 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The square-lipped or white rhinoceros, Wele District, 1915, 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/199
Scope and Contents

100 x 74 mm. A view showing a white rhinoceros shot in the Bahr el Ghazal area (Nile-Congo Divide) [possibly Bahr al Ghazal in Sudan] by Christy, with two rifles laid against the stomach of the animal.

Dates: 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The square-lipped or white rhinoceros, Wele District, 1915, 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/200
Scope and Contents

100 x 74 mm. A view showing a white rhinoceros shot in the Bahr el Ghazal area (Nile-Congo Divide) [possibly Bahr al Ghazal in Sudan] by Christy, with two rifles laid against the stomach of the animal.

Dates: 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The square-lipped or white rhinoceros, Wele District, 1915, 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/201
Scope and Contents

100 x 74 mm. A view showing a white rhinoceros shot in the Bahr el Ghazal area (Nile-Congo Divide) [possibly Bahr al Ghazal in Sudan] by Christy, with two rifles laid against the stomach of the animal.

Dates: 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The S.S. 'Doris' and the hull of the 'Burns', 1870 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043NN/7
Scope and Contents

220 x 135 mm.

Dates: 1870 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The SS 'Winifred' at Kisumu Pier, 1906 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/150
Scope and Contents

140 x 83 mm. Showing the 'Winifred' ( in service on Lake Victoria from 1903-1936) moored at Kisumu Pier. Kisumu, originally named Port Florence, was the terminal for the Uganda Railway on the eastern shore of Lake Victoria, and from here steamers ferried supplies and passengers across the lake to Entebbe.

Dates: 1906 - 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The staff (by one of the arcades at the side of the Administration Block), 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448G/9
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of prints and negatives chiefly taken by Frank E. Joselin while on the staff of Achimota College, Ghana, between Jan. 1930 and Nov. 1947. This material falls into five groups: aerial views of Achimota taken in Jan.1931, later views including some taken from the tower, scenes following the Accra earthquake of 23 June 1939, the visit of the Asantehene in 1946, and portraits of the college’s first principal Rev. Alexander Garden Fraser and Assistant Vice Principal J.E.K. Aggrey. ...
Dates: 1931
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Y30448G/60, 86-114 and 118-19 are missing.
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The staff of Njala Training College, Sierra Leone, 1950 - 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/118
Scope and Contents

The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'They are seconded from the Agricultural and Education Departments. (left to right) King, Sawyer, Taylor, Williams, Wheldon, Evans and Mends'.

Dates: 1950 - 1959
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Staff of the District Commissioner's Office, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/165
Scope and Contents

155 x 115 mm. Sepia. Back: Albert Mensah (Bailiff), Thomas Impraim (Correspondence Clerk), Rex Otupiri (Treasury Clerk), Kojo Nketiah(Messenger)
Front: James Hector Mayne (Chief Clerk and Registrar), William Vickery Fuller (D.C.), Peter Holmes Canham (A.D.C.).

Dates: 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The staff of the Higher College, Yaba, Nigeria, 1947

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/82
Scope and Contents

Group portrait of staff.

Dates: 1947
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Stanley Falls fisheries at Stanleyville [i.e. Kisangani] 1912-14, 1912 - 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/236
Scope and Contents 99 x 75 mm. A view showing the wooden stagings of the fish traps:'Towards the end of the low-water season, small tree-trunks and great supporting posts are fixed upright amongst the rocks and broken water at the falls ... Upon these are built elaborate stagings, lashed with forest creeper ropes, and stretching far out across the tumbling rapids from both banks. Six or ten feet beneath the staging, according to the height of the water, are suspended conical or bell-shaped basket...
Dates: 1912 - 1914
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Stanley Falls fisheries at Stanleyville [i.e. Kisangani] 1912-14, 1912 - 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/237
Scope and Contents

99 x 75 mm. A view showing the wooden stagings of the fish traps. Photograph probably by Christy.

Dates: 1912 - 1914
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Stanley Falls fisheries at Stanleyville [i.e. Kisangani] 1912-14, 1912 - 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/238
Scope and Contents

99 x 75 mm. A view showing the wooden stagings of the fish traps. Photograph probably by Christy.

Dates: 1912 - 1914
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Stanley Falls fisheries at Stanleyville [i.e. Kisangani] 1912-14, 1912 - 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/239
Scope and Contents

98 x 75 mm. A view showing a section of the fisheries, with Africans seated on the rocks in the foreground.

Dates: 1912 - 1914
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Stanley Falls fisheries at Stanleyville [i.e. Kisangani] 1912-14, 1912 - 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/240
Scope and Contents

96 x 73 mm. A view showing a section of the fisheries, with Africans seated on the rocks in the foreground.

Dates: 1912 - 1914
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The statue of Memnon, Plain of Thebes, 1857

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30214A/29
Scope and Contents

232 x 155 mm. A view showing the two vast seated statues of Amenophis III which were erected in front of the mortuary temple, now disappeared. In the foreground are two Europeans and an Egyptian. The central figure (leaning on a rifle) is identified in 'Creative Camera' (December 1979) in a similar, though not identical view, as being Frith himself.

Dates: 1857
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).